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Spying on Citizens

By Michael Blankenship

Maryland officials now concede that, based on information gathered by "Lucy" and others, state police wrongly listed at least 53 Americans as terrorists in a criminal intelligence database -- and shared some information about them with half a dozen state and federal agencies, including the National Security Agency. Among those labeled as terrorists: two Catholic nuns, a former Democratic congressional candidate, a lifelong pacifist and a registered lobbyist. One suspect's file warned that she was "involved in puppet making and allows anarchists to utilize her property for meetings."Read more....Was the operation in Maryland an anomaly, a rogue operation, or dies it represent the proverbial "tip of the iceberg?" Clearly the Bush regime has fostered an atmosphere of surreptitious spying on U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on December 07, 2008 (boomark / email).